Amanda-Users

Re: no space left on device during amflush

2005-10-05 13:48:10
Subject: Re: no space left on device during amflush
From: Alexander Jolk <alexj AT buf DOT com>
To: Shang-Lin Chen <schen AT gps.caltech DOT edu>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 19:35:27 +0200
Shang-Lin Chen wrote:
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
  taper: FATAL shmget: (655440 tapebufs) No space left on device
  amflush: ERROR Cannot flush without tape.  Try again.

That sounds as if taper had not been able to allocate its buffers. What operating system are you on? Did you change anything recently in your amanda.conf? If you are on linux, do you have a pseudo filesystem mounted on /dev/shm? In that case, what does `df -lh' give you?

Alex


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